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21 " To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
22 " You gain power by pretending to be weak. "
23 " We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. "
24 " For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. "
25 " My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. "
26 " Sex pretty much cures everything. "
27 " I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm. "
28 " The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies. "
29 " It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this. "
30 " It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined. "
31 " Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights. "
32 " If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create. "
33 " We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. "
34 " It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. "
35 " Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose "
36 " they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix. "
37 " I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. "
38 " He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself. "
39 " Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us. "
40 " You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. "